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| author | Chatre, Reinette <reinette.chatre@intel.com> | 2009-01-23 13:45:09 -0800 |
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| committer | John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com> | 2009-01-29 16:01:31 -0500 |
| commit | 4c4df78f5e224fd59fe337773878eca681ed02a9 (patch) | |
| tree | d339341bf8abbee3bbc13f9dd7c59d15cc43bde5 | |
| parent | 1a9f509368ceb24fc66be961be15c69966f5eb5d (diff) | |
iwlwifi: add test to determine if interface in monitor mode
mac80211 sets driver in monitor mode through configuring the
RX filters. We cannot trust priv->iw_mode to be accurate
regarding monitor mode as iw_mode is only set in add_interface,
which is not called by mac80211 when in monitor mode.
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Tomas Winkler <tomas.winkler@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-core.c | 12 |
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-core.c b/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-core.c index 9f284ebb6c2..ef4a7c54c73 100644 --- a/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-core.c +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-core.c @@ -699,6 +699,18 @@ static u8 iwl_count_chain_bitmap(u32 chain_bitmap) } /** + * iwl_is_monitor_mode - Determine if interface in monitor mode + * + * priv->iw_mode is set in add_interface, but add_interface is + * never called for monitor mode. The only way mac80211 informs us about + * monitor mode is through configuring filters (call to configure_filter). + */ +static bool iwl_is_monitor_mode(struct iwl_priv *priv) +{ + return !!(priv->staging_rxon.filter_flags & RXON_FILTER_PROMISC_MSK); +} + +/** * iwl_set_rxon_chain - Set up Rx chain usage in "staging" RXON image * * Selects how many and which Rx receivers/antennas/chains to use. |